You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
BEVERLY SILLSIn youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
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The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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I’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.
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Don’t get me started on critics.
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When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can’t.
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I think it is! I don’t feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
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